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45 Points

  1. In 1865 on the Great Plains there were ______million buffalo?
  1. Crossing the continent takes ______months, resulting ______die on wagon trains.
  1. It takes how many miles to reach the west coast by sailing around S. America?
  1. To unite East and West and conquer the wilderness, President Lincoln approves the Transcontinental ______miles long.
  1. What was the biggest obstacle heading east from California?
  1. Over the last 4 million years the Sierra Nevada’s climb over ______miles high.
  1. The Union Pacific starts in ______in the east, the Central Pacific starts in ______.
  1. Both rail companies will meet in ______.
  1. The total cost for the Transcontinental Railroad is ______billion?
  1. How did the government pay for the Transcontinental Railroad?
  1. What was the biggest obstacle while building the railroad?
  1. What type of people were preferred for labor over Americans while building the railroad?
  1. Over ______Chinese laborers were brought in to build the railroad.
  1. To blast through the rock the railroad uses Nitroglycerin which is ______times more powerful than ______.
  1. How much does the chemist who mixes the Nitroglycerin get paid monthly?
  1. Estimated ______Chinese die in explosions and rock slides?
  1. Once they get through the mountains, tack laying accelerates from ______inches, to ______miles a day.
  1. May 10, ______a one word telegram is received signaling the completion of the railroad.
  1. It now only takes ______days to cross the country.
  1. The Transcontinental Railroad causes a migration to what region of the United States?
  1. Eventually ______% of the U.S. is given away due to the Homestead Act.
  1. Without lumber to build houses, the settlers live in what?
  1. What pre-historic species emerged to battle for the Great Plains?
  1. In 1874 locusts devour ______the crops of the west.
  1. In ______, ______, and ______loggers harvest over 50 million acres of trees?
  1. Between 1825 and 1925 ______of Norway’s population comes to America.
  1. What was the target of Civil War veterans that traveled to the Great Plains to hunt?
  1. Hunters harvest the buffalo for their ______. In 1874 they ship over ______million out of KS, worth ______back East.
  1. To meet demand, hunters kill how many buffalo a day?
  1. Spanish conquistadors brought the horse from Europe in ______.
  1. Over ______years later, more than 1 million ______roam the Great Plains.
  1. What is the weapon of choice for the plains Indians as they hunted the buffalo?
  1. In the time it takes to reload a gun, a warrior can ride ______yards and fire ______arrows at a buffalo running ______mph.
  1. ______million buffalo are killed in little over a decade.
  1. With the buffalo gone, and facing starvation, the Native Americans are forced onto ______.
  1. In 1889 ______buffalo existed in the whole United States.
  1. In 1865 how many cattle roamed wild in Texas?
  1. The ______were a group of people of headed west to work with the cattle roaming in Texas.
  1. The cows brought over by the Spanish in 1493 have bread for centuries creating a new breed, the ______.
  1. What invention threatened the coyboys way of life?
  1. Barbed wire cuts the price of fencing by ______%.
  1. Gold is discovered in the ______of South Dakota causing a gold rush.
  1. With ______soldiers Gen. Custer charges the camp inhabited by ______Native Americans.
  1. September 29, 1890 the last independent Sioux surrender inside of ______?
  1. In novemember 1883, the U.S. is divided into ______time zones.
  1. By the end of the 19th century, America has ______miles of railroad tracks.